05 Aug 2009
Paul Romer on Charter Cities at TED; Other Videos
Paul Romer, who has resigned from Stanford to work on his charter cities idea, gave a Ted Talk in July. It has recently been posted to the TED website. The notion, quickly, is to allow the creation of cities with different rulesets than the surrounding country in order to allow experimentation with rules. Specifically, he points to the example of Hong Kong and how it was a kind of charter city that allowed the slow adoption of markets in China, helping to alleviate massive poverty. I’m not particularly convinced this is a good idea, but I’ve definitely heard worse development ideas. of course.
Speaking of TED, some other videos I’ve watched recently that you may find interesting are
- Michael Pritchard – a new water filtration system (seemingly oversold in the video though),
- Jim Fallon – examination of the minds of serial killers (with potential implications for areas of persistent violence and conflict),
- Stewart Brand – some ‘new’ (at least from a verified green) thinking on how to combat climate change and enivronmental harm, and
- Arthur Benjamin – a push for mathematics education in high school to teach statistics rather than calculus.
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